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← ScienceWhich outcome occurs when ambient light passing through a stressed polymer sheet is viewed through perpendicularly aligned polarizing filters?
A)Birefringence creates visible color patterns✓
B)Refraction increases light transmission rate
C)Polarization attenuates shorter wavelengths selectively
D)Constructive interference increases overall intensity
💡 Explanation
Birefringence causes color patterns, because stress induces varying refractive indices in orthogonal directions; therefore some wavelengths constructively interfere while others destructively interfere, creating colored patterns, rather than uniform transmission or wavelength filtering.
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